What if economic behavior obeys the same principle of least action that governs motion in physics?
Principles of Economic Behavior Quantum introduces Economic Behavior Theory (EBT), an original framework that reimagines economic activity not as the aggregate choices of rational agents, but as a measurable, physics-like system governed by testable laws. At its foundation is the Economic Behavior Quantity (EBQ) - a discrete, quantifiable unit of economic action - built from the Economic Behavior Element (EBE) and linked into Economic Behavior Chains (EBC) that trace how value and decisions actually propagate through real economic systems.
The book situates this framework within a Triple-Space model - physical, information, and cognitive space - offering a unified way to describe how behavior moves between the physical marketplace, the digital/informational layer, and the cognitive decisions of economic agents. From this foundation, the book develops a full architecture of formal laws, theorems, and indices, including:
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• The 26/37/73 statistical regularity, an empirical pattern the book elevates to a testable law of behavioral distribution
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• The Seven-Element Representation Framework, a complete system for characterizing any economic behavior
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• The Financial System Tension Index (FTI), a new measure of systemic financial stress and stability
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• An information-theoretic account of money and value, extending Shannon-style information concepts into economic exchange
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• Applications of variational and least-action methods to financial markets, algorithmic trading, and cryptocurrency
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Rather than staying purely theoretical, the book grounds every major claim in extensive empirical work - most notably a detailed case study validating the framework against China's digital economy, alongside spatial economic analysis of cities as physical gathering points of economic behavior, and an examination of how digital technology is reshaping employment, innovation, and market structure.
Written by a physicist-turned-economist with a background advising international science and technology policy bodies, Principles of Economic Behavior Quantum offers economists, quantitative researchers, policy analysts, and digital-economy practitioners a rigorous, physics-inspired lens for understanding economic behavior in an increasingly algorithmic age - and a framework built to be tested, extended, and applied.
